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I love helping new and young writers develop their work and figure out their own creative processes. I am available for hire as a private tutor specializing in writing/English in the Boston area. I can also provide assistance as a writing coach remotely, via email and Google Docs. Please use the contact me page to inquire about rates and references. ﻿

I believe that everyone can love writing and reading, it's just a matter of finding what type of writing and reading you love.

Donalyn Miller's book, The Book Whisperer, states that in order to get kids to become better readers, you have to let them read what they like––even if that means just letting them read the back of cereal boxes. Kids should be encouraged to try out different genres to figure out what they like to read, and then, once they find what they like, they will actually want to read, and then they will read more and more, and then they will naturally start to read more and more challenging books.

I think this same philosophy applies to writing: students should be encouraged to try out different genres of writing to find what they enjoy––maybe it's poems, maybe it's stories, maybe it's personal essays, maybe it's blog posts, maybe it's really long Instagram captions––because, no matter what it is you're writing, you're still writing.

The two ways to improve at writing are to 1) read a lot and 2) write every day. I have written in a daily journal since August 2001 and, as of July 2017, I have filled 95 volumes. Even if I'm just writing about how lousy my day was or a dumb fight I had with a friend, I'm still writing.﻿